Autobiography of a YogiThe Floating Press, 2009 M01 1 - 860 pages The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation. The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book: "Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended with priceless superphysical information-much needed to balance the Western material efficiency with Eastern spiritual efficiency-come from the vigorous pen of Paramhansa Yogananda, whose teachings my husband and myself have had the pleasure of studying for twenty years." |
Contents
Chapter 25 Brother Ananta and Sister Nalini | 383 |
Chapter 26 The Science of Kriya Yoga | 393 |
Chapter 27 Founding a Yoga School at Ranchi | 407 |
Chapter 28 Kashi Reborn and Rediscovered | 422 |
Chapter 29 Rabindranath Tagore and I Compare Schools | 430 |
Chapter 30 The Law of Miracles | 438 |
Chapter 31 An Interview with the Sacred Mother | 458 |
Chapter 32 Rama is Raised from the Dead | 476 |
Chapter 7 The Levitating Saint | 106 |
Chapter 8 Indias Great Scientist JC Bose | 115 |
Chapter 9 The Blissful Devotee and His Cosmic Romance | 129 |
Chapter 10 I Meet My Master Sri Yukteswar | 142 |
Chapter 11 Two Penniless Boys in Brindaban | 161 |
Chapter 12 Years in My Masters Hermitage | 177 |
Chapter 13 The Sleepless Saint | 230 |
Chapter 14 An Experience in Cosmic Consciousness | 243 |
Chapter 15 The Cauliflower Robbery | 255 |
Chapter 16 Outwitting the Stars | 273 |
Chapter 17 Sasi and the Three Sapphires | 289 |
Chapter 18 A Mohammedan WonderWorker | 301 |
Chapter 19 My Master in Calcutta Appears in Serampore | 312 |
Chapter 20 We Do Not Visit Kashmir | 319 |
Chapter 21 We Visit Kashmir | 329 |
Chapter 22 The Heart of a Stone Image | 346 |
Chapter 23 I Receive My University Degree | 358 |
Chapter 24 I Become a Monk of the Swami Order | 371 |
Chapter 33 Babaji the YogiChrist of Modern India | 491 |
Chapter 34 Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas | 505 |
Chapter 35 The Christlike Life of Lahiri Mahasaya | 527 |
Chapter 36 Babajis Interest in the West | 546 |
Chapter 37 I Go to America | 564 |
Chapter 38 Luther BurbankmdashA Saint Amidst the Roses | 580 |
Chapter 39 Therese Neumann the Catholic Stigmatist | 590 |
Chapter 40 I Return to India | 605 |
Chapter 41 An Idyl in South India | 619 |
Chapter 42 Last Days with My Guru | 640 |
Chapter 43 The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar | 665 |
Chapter 44 With Mahatma Gandhi at Wardha | 698 |
Chapter 45 The Bengali JoyPermeated Mother | 727 |
Chapter 46 The Woman Yogi who Never Eats | 737 |
Chapter 47 I Return to the West | 757 |
Chapter 48 At Encinitas in California | 765 |
Endnotes | 779 |
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Common terms and phrases
Ananta ancient ashram astral atoms Babaji Babu Benares Bengali BHAGAVAD GITA blessed bliss body brother Calcutta causal chelas consciousness cosmic cosmos Dakshineswar death devotee disciples Divine Mother earth entered eternal eyes Father feet felt flesh floor flow flowers Gandhi gaze GITA guru guru's Guruji hand healing heart hermitage Himalayas Hindu holy human India Infinite inner Jitendra karma Kashi Kashmir KRIYA YOGA Lahiri Mahasaya later laughed light living Lord lotus posture Mahatma man's MAYA meditation mind morning Mukunda nature never night passed peace physical prayer Puri Ranchi realization reflected remarked rishis sacred SADHU saint SAMADHI Sanskrit scriptures Self-Realization Fellowship Serampore Serampore College silent smiled soon soul spiritual Sri Yukteswar Swami temple Therese Therese Neumann thought tiger told touch train truth universal vanished vision voice wisdom words Yogananda yogi yogic